[180698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lorenzo Colitti)
Tue Jun 9 23:07:02 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <D9873DEB-1678-4B51-9374-695C9226DD2B@delong.com>
From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@colitti.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:06:40 +0900
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> At the end of the day, I see Androids refusal to implement DHCPv6 as abou=
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> the same level of stupidity as Apple=E2=80=99s refusal to implement 464XL=
AT in iOS.
>
Based on the facts, you could could just as well say that Apple is trying
to advance the state of the art by refusing to provide suboptimal 464xlat
and insisting instead that developers support IPv6-only networks as
first-class citizens:
https://twitter.com/dteam69/status/608036976990797824
By the same token, you could argue that not supporting statful DHCPv6
address assignment advances the state of the art by trying to avoid
slipping back into a "one-address-per-device-NAT-required" world.
